Improved heel-irons



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

W. M RICE7 OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED HEEL-IRONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,675, dated October 9, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER M. RICE, of Boston, Suiolk county, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful and Improved Heel-Iron for Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are sucient to` enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains to make and use my said invention or improvements without further invention or experiment.

The nature of my invention and improvements consists in making heel-irons for boots and shoes far thicker, or twice as thick, on the rear and out sides of the heels as they are on the front and in sides ofthe heels, also, in making the interior ofthe heel-irons bevelin g in the interior, so as to fasten them onto the heels of boots or shoes by nailing or pegging the leather iitted to the interior ofthe heel-iron to the heel of the boot or shoe.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of my improved heel-iron. Fig. 2 is a plan of a heel with'the iron fastened to it. Fig. 3 is a section of Fig. 2 on the line 0c x.

In these drawings, A is the front of the heeliron 5 B, the rear; C, the outside, and D the insidethat is, D is the side of the iron which is worn on that side of the heel next to the other foot, and C the opposite side from the other foot, which I call the outside.77

In the drawings, the parts B and C arerepresented much thicker than, or nearly twice as thick as, the parts A and D.

I make my improved heel-irons in pairs, and apply them to the heels of boots and shoes with the thick sides to the ontsides of the 'the rear or one side.

I make the upper-side of my heel-irons twice or several times as thick as the under side or edge, as shown in Fig. 3, by beveling the i11- terior of the iron, so that apiece of leather may be iitted to the interior of the iron and pegged or nailed to the heel, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, to hold the iron on the heel of the boot or shoe, thereby saving the necessity of making holes in the irons to fasten them to the leather heels, as heretofore practiced.

My improved heel-irons may be made ver f cheap of cast or malleable iron, which induces me to hope they will go into general use.

As a new article of manufacture, the abovedescribed heel-irons-to wit, heel-irons made thickest on that part or side which usually wears out fastest and beveled on the inside, as described, so as to be lheld onto the heel by the leather nailed or pegged in the inside of said irons.

IVALTER M. RICE.

Witnesses J. DENNIS, Jr., M. MORLEY. 

